Edmund Findlay

{{Short description|Scottish politician and baronet}} {{More citations needed|date=November 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Edmund Findlay | birth_date = 14 June 1902 | death_date = {{death date and age|1962|09|06|1902|06|14|df=y}} | death_place = Bermuda, West Indies | alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford | spouse = Margaret Jean Graham | mother = Dame Harriet Findlay | father = Sir John Ritchie Findlay }} '''Sir (John) Edmund (Ritchie) Findlay, 2nd Baronet''' FRSE (14 June 1902 – 6 September 1962) was a Scottish politician and baronet. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Banffshire from 1935 to 1945.

==Life== He was the eldest son of Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet, and Dame Harriet Findlay (DBE) (born Harriet Jane Backhouse). He was educated at Harrow School and then attended university at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating BA.

He married Margaret Jean Graham.

Like his father and grandfather, John Ritchie Findlay, he was proprietor of ''The Scotsman'' newspaper.

He succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 1930<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://thepeerage.com/p7112.htm#i71114 |title = Person Page}}</ref> and was in turn succeeded by his brother, Lt.-Col. Roland Lewis Findlay.

In 1932, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Watt, Robert Grant, Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer and James Hartley Ashworth.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=6 May 2016|archive-date=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He was Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Banffshire from 1935 to 1945.

In 1953, he sold ''The Scotsman'' newspaper to Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, ending the long connection between the Findlay family and the newspaper.<ref>Confusion to Our Enemies, by Arnold Kemp</ref>

He died on 6 September 1962 in Bermuda in the West Indies.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|access-date=6 May 2016|archive-date=24 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | sir-john-findlay | Sir Edmund Findlay }}

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